The morning mist clung gently to the fields when Daniel O’Donnell arrived at the old stone chapel. No spotlight followed him, no applause greeted him—just the hush of early light and the memory of hymns once sung by his mother at the hearth. He stepped inside alone, the wooden pews worn smooth by generations of hands folded in prayer.
Rediscovering a Patriotic Classic: “Battle Hymn of the Republic” by Daniel O’Donnell (2024) In a musical landscape often defined by fleeting trends…